Thirteen months ago the Saints traveled to Bank of America
Stadium to butt heads with the Carolina Panthers. They handily defeated the Panthers 28-10 to
end a 7-game losing streak. A month
later the Panthers, seeking to snap their 6-game losing streak, visited the
Superdome. The Saints dug a hole for
themselves and wound up losing 41-10.

Saints fans will remember the melee in the first quarter of
that game that was sparked by QB Cam Newton making an ass of himself with that
damned “Superman” celebration I detest.

Saints QB Drew Brees has a shoulder injury. If he doesn’t respond to treatment he will
sit out today's game and Luke McCown, the guy who pitifully muses in a Verizon commercial, “I wonder why they save those back-ups
and not just put them in the regular rotation.
I bet if they just had the chance some of those back-ups would really
shine,.” will be under center. It will be McCown’s first NFL
start since 2011.

The Panthers are 2-0 and the Saints are 0-2. While the absence of Brees could give the
Cats a distinct advantage, if Newton plays like he’s the only player on the
field, the Saints could force him to rethink his wonder jock mentality. The Saints’ defense could punish Newton and
stretch their winning record at BOA Stadium to 5-4.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Today my beloved Crimson Tide plays at home against the Warhawks
of Louisiana-Monroe. The game airs on
the SEC Network at 4:00 PM ET.

After last week’s demoralizing defeat at the hands of the Ole
Miss Rebels I, your humble Bama fan, note that the Tide took a precipitous plunge
in the AP Top 25 Poll from No. 2 to
No. 12, some nasty rumors about Offensive Coordinator Lane Kiffin were swirling
this week (turns out it was an Internet hoax) and backup kicker Gunnar Raborn
was suspended indefinitely after his arrest on Thursday for driving under the
influence of a controlled substance.

I don’t want to be a “gloomy Gus”, but I hope these incidents are
not portends if a dying Alabama dynasty.
There are far too many in college football who would love nothing
better.

I was certain last week that Ole Miss would not win back-to-back
victories against Bama. Brother was I
wrong. This week ULM is undoubtedly
looking to do the same thing. Back in
2007, the Warhawks were at Bryant-Denny Stadium and won the game the Tide had
squandered 21-14.

QB Jake Coker is going to be under center today and if he
continues to look down his receivers, ULM’s defense is going to smother any
chance at catching the ball. I hope
Kiffin stops thinking with his little head and starts thinking with his big
head and works on Coker’s passing skills, otherwise the stories about Alabama’s
dynasty dying will not be exaggerated.

The Warhawks are going into Bryant-Denny Stadium looking to pull
off an upset.

ROLL TIDE ROLL!

And
because no football post would be complete with pom-poms, check out this week’s
pretty young thing.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Few will disagree
that GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina emerged the clear victor in last
week’s CNN debate.

No matter which
candidate you may be supporting, you must admit that Fiorina’s performance was
refreshing—refreshing from the standpoint that Trump, who had
insulted her looks and backtracked, insisting he was merely commenting on her “persona”
was left with egg on his face. He had no
comeback. A body blow was struck; a body
blow which no other candidate has been able to muster this entire election
cycle.

"You know, it's
interesting to me. Mr. Trump said that he heard Mr. Bush very clearly and what
Mr. Bush said. I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr.
Trump said."

Wednesday night’s The Kelly File featured National Review senior editor Rich Lowry
in a discussion of Fiorina’s business career and the disaster many claim it
was. Kelly asked if it was sexist to
make that claim. Lowry responded, “No,
no one disputes that. Trump obviously attacks everyone but she’s [Fiorina]
become a much bigger target, and I think part of what’s going on here is that
last debate. Let’s be honest. Carly cut his balls off with the precision of a
surgeon.”

He continued, “He
knows he insulted and bullied his way to the top of the polls. No one was able to
best him ever, except for this tough lady on that stage. And it must kill him.
He must be simmering about it to this night.”

Shortly thereafter, a
Twitter flamewar between Trump and Lowry turned into a comedic lampooning with
The Donald demanding the government get involved.

.@realDonaldTrump a deal for you, Donald: if you apologize to Carly for your boorish insult, I might stop noting how she cut your b**** off

If Trump wants the
FCC to fine Lowry for offending him, would a President Trump become all stompy
feet and browbeat the FCC into pulling the plug on Comedy Central for airing an episode of South Park depicting him
being raped
and murdered?

Clinton requested a
meeting with the president, against the advice of hubby Billy Jeff, believing
“she was being persecuted for minor, meaningless violations,” Klein writes.

Clinton initially
took a friendly approach during the meeting and Obama reacted as if he didn’t
know what she was talking about. “He was
almost being deliberately dense,” a Clinton source said. “It really angered
her.”

“What I want for you
to do is call off your fucking dogs, Barack!” Clinton allegedly said.

The president was so
stunned by Clinton’s disrespectful demands; he needed a moment to compose
himself. “There is nothing I can do for
you one way or another. Things have been set in motion, and I can’t and won’t
interfere. Your problems are, frankly, of your own making. If you had been
honest…”

While
the Clinton camp is dismissing Klein’s book as “bullshit”, the exposé he submits sounds totes legit.

The 2015 regular
season for baseball is drawing to a sad close with Yogi’s passing. No.8 is
joining “The Boys of Summer” in heaven. Rest in peace Yogi. You were the greatest.

Yogi’s wife Carmen
once asked him, “Yogi, you are from St. Louis.
We live and New Jersey and you play ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like
me to have you buried?” Yogi answered, “Surprise
me.”

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Donald
Trump believes having a relationship with others is an important aspect of
deal-making.

During last Wednesday's
CNN GOP debate at the Reagan Presidential Library, the billionaire presidential
hopeful said again that he thought he could get along with other global power
players.

"I would talk to
[Putin], I would get along with him," he said on the debate stage. "I believe—and
I may be wrong, in which case I'd probably have to take a different path—but
I would get along with a lot of the world leaders that this country is not
getting along with."

According to a published report from CBS
News, Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to attend the
United Nations’ 70th General Assembly in New York City next Sunday. Michael Cohen, The Trump Organization’s Vice
President, hinted “there’s a better than likely chance Trump may meet with
Putin when he comes here for the United Nations,”

“People have been talking,” Trump told NBC. “I heard that he wanted
to meet with me and certainly I am open to it.
I would love to do that if he wants to do that.” If it was arranged, Trump said he’d “enjoy
doing it.”

That brought to mind the creatively genius Photoshop™ by bkeyser, the USMC veteran, who
submitted the image
that went viral of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer on
horseback with Putin.

The editorial page of the venerated New HampshireUnion Leaderproclaimed
it’s all over but the shouting.

Noting that Democratic voters should feel used, the editorialist
explained that the DNC has strictly limited the number of officially sanctioned
primary debates to six and written the participation rules so tightly as to all
but guarantee there will be no alternatives such as the Leader’s Voters First Forum for GOP presidential candidates this
past summer.

When DNC Chairman
Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke at the state Democratic Convention in Manchester
on Saturday, she was heckled
so loudly her speech was drowned out. The hecklers shouted her down with
demands of more debates. Their anger and frustration are understandable.

The
Democratic primary voters are being muffled—on purpose—by a party elite that is
hell-bent on ensuring there is no disruption to Hillary Clinton’s path to the
nomination.

From the debate
schedule to the early
endorsements from figures such as US Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie
Hassan, the fix is in for Clinton. [Emphasis
mine] Democratic voters might ask
themselves why the establishment feels the need to go to such lengths to
protect its candidate from the voters’ judgment.

Even the hacks on
MSNBC’s Morning Joe noticed Face the Nation anchor John Dickerson’s
interview with The Ice Cube In Heels was scripted and controlled by
her campaign claiming Dickerson was not allowed to ask follow-up questions
about her burgeoning email scandal.

Joe Scarborough said,
“…if there were no preconditions to the Clinton interview, the question then
becomes how he could have failed to ask so many obvious follow-up questions.
It's not clear which reality is more damning.'

Sunday, September 20, 2015

My day got off to a
good start yesterday. In the South the
holy day is Saturday because of college football. I was pumped when LSU trounced Auburn and the
Dawgs of Georgia mauled the Gamecocks.
(Take that Steve Spurrier!) I
quickly became #SadAlabamaFan when the Ole Miss Rebels caused tears in
Tuscaloosa and the Tide tumbled.

I have been nursing
my bruised ego in the aftermath of their ignominious
thrashing.

Just when I thought I
could no longer derive any meaning from life the Panthers beat the Houston
Texans and Proof’s
beloved Niners ate dirt in their humiliating loss to the Steelers.

I went out for a
while and when I came back I found things had gotten out of hand. I found my little furkid, Sophie, had invited
Bully inside to watch some YouTube™ videos of last year’s NFC Championship Game
in which the Seattle Seahawks defeated my beloved Green Bay Packers.

I didn’t mind that so
much but when I discovered she had also let Nibbler J. Puffcheeks join
them in the TV room to swill beer I got upset.

You try to raise your
pets the right way. Sometimes they go a
little astray. You see, ‘ol Puffcheeks
was arrested on a B&E last November by the Curmudgeon PD. That character is bad business.

I took a broom to the
fuzzy-tailed bastard and sent Sophie to her doggie bed without supper.

I’m letting Bully
stay to watch tonight’s game against Seattle because he’s already donning his
Packers jersey and cheesehead hat.
Hopefully, my boys can rock Lambeau Field and dish out some sweet
revenge.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Revenge is in the air tonight as No. 15 Ole Miss rolls into Bear
Country. No. 2 Alabama will take on the
Rebels at Bryant-Denny Stadium at 9:15 PM.
The game will air on ESPN.

The Rebels came away with a 23-17 victory last year at home
against a stunned Tide and the jubilant fans rushed onto the field of Vaught-Hemingway
Stadium tearing down the goalposts and parading the pieces around The Grove and
The Square in Oxford.

Ole Miss has never beaten Alabama in back-to-back seasons. The only time Ole Miss beat Alabama at home
was waaaaaaay back in 1988. Wins over
Alabama are far and few between. One fan
mused, “Our hearts are broken year after year.”

That shocking defeat caused jaws to flap endlessly amongst
sports writers and pundits who questioned whether Alabama could win the SEC
Championship. They did recover. After all the bowl games and playoffs had
been played, the Tide wound up with two losses and the rest of the SEC teams
had at least three.

The Crimson Tide’s defense
is about to be tested in ways it hasn't been since the Sugar Bowl, and it’s
offense won't need any extra motivation to play an Ole Miss team that beat them
a year ago.

Last week the Rebels’ defensive back, Tee Shepard, was ejected
for targeting against Fresno State and the SEC Office imposed a half-game
suspension today.

The Crimson Tide had
the most efficient run defense in the country last year and returned five
starters in their front seven. In games against Wisconsin and Middle Tennessee State,
Bama allowed opposing running backs a scant 91 yards in 38 carries.

Ole Miss beat Bama
with a so-so run game last year, but trust me, that ain’t something you want to try
twice.

Bama wins by a touchdown.

ROLL TIDE!

And because no
football post would be complete without pom-poms, please enjoy this photo of
some Bama beauties.Get

He told the audience
he preferred to make opening remarks and open the event to their toughest
questions. “Make them vicious,
violent, terrible questions,” Trump said.

After the event, reporters asked Trump why he didn't challenge the
questioner's assertions. Trump did not answer, but his campaign manager, Corey
Lewandowski told
CNN that the candidate did not hear the question. "All he heard was a
question about training camps, which he said we have to look into,"
Lewandowski said. "The media want to make this an issue about Obama, but
it's about him waging a war on Christianity."

Seems
they might be out of tinfoil in the Granite State. That’s what the intellectually incurious
might think.

Muslims
of America operates 22 “villages” around the United States with a 70-acre
compound called Islamberg
as its main headquarters in New York.
MOA also operates an enclave identified as Mahmoudberg in Texas and Baladullah
near Badger, CA. Its members are devoted
followers of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani the Islamist whom Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was on his way to
interview when he was abducted in 2002 and eventually beheaded by 9/11
mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

The FBI
documents obtained by Clarion
Project clearly identify MOA as a terrorist organization. The Department of
Homeland Security privately agreed in 2005, listing Jamaat ul-Fuqra (and specifically MOA) as a
possible sponsor of a terrorist attack on the U.S.

So why is MOA/JUF
allowed to operate in the country?

The answer is that
the State Department has not designated MOA/Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign
Terrorist Organization. The group is thus permitted to organize in the U.S.
until that happens. Yet, the State Department has also recognized the
group’s terroristic agenda.

In 1998, the State
Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism report described Jamaat ul-Fuqra as an “Islamic sect that
seeks to purify Islam through violence.” It said that Fuqra members engaged in
assassinations and bombings in the U.S. in the 1980s and still live in
“isolated rural compounds” in the country.

A State Department
spokesperson was asked in January 2002 about why MOA stopped appearing in the
Department’s annual terrorism reports. The answer was as follows:

“Jamaat ul-Fuqra has
never been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It was included in
several recent annual terrorism reports under ‘other terrorist groups,’ i.e.,
groups that had carried out acts of terrorism but that were not formally
designated by the Secretary of State. However, because of the group's
inactivity during 2000, it was not included in the most recent terrorism report
covering that calendar year.”

It has not appeared
since. Yet, here we have FBI documents from as late as 2007 discussing the
terrorist threat posed by MOA.

It’s long past due
that the State Department be forced to address this obvious threat. The State
Department must designate Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
before it’s too late.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

A
scrapper with true grit, Carly Fiorina took the stage at the Reagan
Presidential Library for the second GOP debate and drew her sword. Brit Hume and a whole host of male pundits
criticized Fiorina’s failure to smile noting that she came across as too
aggressive and lacking humor.

Geez
boys. I find nothing humorous about
mutilating babies to harvest their organs, the national debt, the threat of a
nuclear-armed Iran, Putin’s incursions into Syria, the growing Islamic
Caliphate, drug addiction and the culture of corruption in politics. How about coming to terms with the fact that
she had to show her toughness on
stage?

On six
morning talk shows today Fiorina said, “This is going to be a fight. If you can’t fight on a debate stage, you
can’t stand up and fight for the American people.” She went on to say, “It’s only a woman whose
appearance would be talked about when running for president—never a man.” She added,
“The point is, women are half this nation.
Women are half the potential of this nation. Still somehow we spend a lot of time talking
about women’s appearance instead of their qualifications.” [Damn right.]

John Podhoretz praised
her performance noting, “At
almost any moment that she managed to seize time to speak—and she was compelled
by the structure of the debate to interrupt repeatedly to get that time—she
knocked it out of the park.”

One über-liberal
pundit wrote, "If you right wingers get your act together and nominate
Carly, you win."

The first came when
Fiorina turned a meandering conversation about Vladimir Putin into a crisp
recitation of what a new commander in chief should do about Russian aggression:

"What I would do,
immediately, is begin rebuilding the Sixth Fleet, I would begin rebuilding the
missile defense program in Poland, I would conduct regular, aggressive military
exercises in the Baltic States. I'd probably send a few thousand more troops
into Germany. Vladimir Putin would get the message. By the way, the reason it
is so critically important that every one of us know General Soleimani's name
is because Russia is in Syria right now, because the head of the Quds force
traveled to Russia and talked Vladimir Putin into aligning themselves with Iran
and Syria to prop up Bashar al-Assad."

"We could rebuild the Sixth Fleet. I will. We haven't. We could rebuild the
missile defense program. We haven't.
I will. We could also, to Senator Rubio's point, give the Egyptians what
they've asked for, which is intelligence. We could give the Jordanians what
they've asked for, bombs and materiel. We have not supplied it. I will. We
could arm the Kurds. They've been asking us for three years. All of this is
within our control."

Fiorina had packed
more policy prescriptions into one brief statement—all while throwing in a dig
at Donald Trump with the reference to knowing "General Soleimani's
name"—than any other candidate onstage could muster.

Any other campaign
might have dispatched spinners to celebrate the moment. But Fiorina was just
getting started. Next came an epic and out-of-the-blue connection of two of the
issues about which there is a lot of agreement among Republicans—Iran's nuclear
ambitions and the scandal over Planned Parenthood's sale of body parts. How to
put those two together?

"I would like to link
these two issues. One has something to do with the defense of the security of
this nation. The other has something to do with the defense of the character of
this nation. You have not heard a plan about Iran from any politician up here,
here is my plan. On day one in the Oval Office, I will make two phone calls,
the first to my good friend to Bibi Netanyahu to reassure him we will stand
with the state of Israel."

"The second, to the supreme leader, to tell him that unless and until he opens
every military and every nuclear facility to real anytime, anywhere inspections
by our people, not his, we, the United States of America, will make it as
difficult as possible and move money around the global financial system."

"We can do that; we
don't need anyone's cooperation to do it. And every ally and every adversary we
have in this world will know that the United States in America is back in the
leadership business, which is how we must stand with our allies."

"As regards Planned
Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton,
Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table,
it's heart beating, it's legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it
alive to harvest its brain. This is about the character of our nation, and if
we will not stand up in and force President Obama to veto this bill, shame on
us."

The power of
Fiorina's presentation simply knocked out a lot of viewers. Conservative writer
Mollie Hemingway, who has been pressing the media to pay more attention to the
Planned Parenthood videos, was left nearly speechless, tweeting "THANK YOU
CARLY. THANK YOU CARLY. THANK YOU CARLY."

But Fiorina's most
intense big moment was still to come—and it was by far the briefest. Everyone
knew that Donald Trump's insults about Fiorina's looks—the "Look at that
face. Would anyone vote for that?" quote from Trump in a recent Rolling
Stone article—would come up in the debate. It did, when moderator Jake Tapper
read it to Fiorina and noted Trump's explanation that he was not talking about
Fiorina's actual face but rather her "persona."

"Please feel
free to respond what you think about his persona," Tapper said to Fiorina.
Referring to an earlier spat between Trump and Jeb Bush over a Bush statement
about women's health, Fiorina answered:

"You know, it's
interesting to me. Mr. Trump said that he heard Mr. Bush very clearly and what
Mr. Bush said. I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr.
Trump said."

Fiorina's answer took
just a few seconds, but it knocked Trump flat—something that has not happened
in any debate, or any other campaign event, so far. Trump, who has made it a
habit not to apologize for attacks and to double down when challenged,
surrendered completely. But he managed to do it in a way that did him no good
at all. "I think she's got a beautiful face," Trump said, "and I
think she's a beautiful woman." Did anyone believe that? And wasn't he
still saying her appearance is an issue?

Finally, Fiorina
lapped the field when Tapper asked the candidates to suggest a woman to put on
the $10 bill. Most of the men onstage were unprepared for the question. When the question came to the only woman on
the stage, Fiorina rejected its premise.

Four big moments in one debate. No other candidate had
that.

Carly Fiorina Rips Planned Parenthood

Carly
Fiorina Slams Hillary Clinton

Trump On Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina Gets Personal Discussing Drugs

According to Fiorina’s 2015 memoir, her stepdaughter,
Lori, died in 2009 after struggling with alcohol, prescription pills and
bulimia. She was just 35.

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Hide your
wallets. The quirky old avowed socialist
and atheist Bernie Sanders spoke at Liberty University last Monday proselytizing
his “vision” for America that includes a spending plan requiring an estimated
$15T for a government-run (single payer), universal healthcare system. Billions more would be spent on
infrastructure, Social Security expansion and free tuition at
public schools—totaling $18T (matching our already obscene national
debt).

Just
seven years ago when The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer took
office, total debt stood at$10.6 trillion, which means it now has increased by almost $8 trillion—roughly
70 percent—during his tenure as president.
Have we seen any results from the debt increase? Why yes, yes we have. His bundlers, like Solyndra, have been
handsomely enriched.

Getting back to
Bernie, as he spoke to the Liberty students, he recalled Pope Francis’ remarks
about the “idolatry of money” and the “need for financial reform along ethical
lines…Money has to serve, not rule.”

Smitten by what he
described as profound words from the Pontiff, Bernie went all biblical musing,
“We are living in a nation and in a world, and the Bible speaks to this issue,
in a nation and in a world which worships not love of brothers and sisters, not
love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great
wealth. I do not believe that is the
country we should be living in. Money
and wealth should serve the people. The
people should not have to serve money and wealth.”

Sanders’ Policy
Director, Warren Gunnels said, “The programs are so
expensive because they would address an array of festering problems. Sen. Sanders’ agenda does cost money. If you look at the problems that are out
there, it’s very reasonable.”

To pay for his plan,
he will see to it that the government crushes you with stifling tax increases. People who can afford to pay more will pay
more, until they can't afford to pay more. People who pay less will see their
world of services decrease until only basic services are available on
demand.

Hey Bernie, I’ve got
a news flash for ya; conservatives give more money to charity than
liberals. Overall, the states in which peoplegave the highest
percentageof their adjusted gross incomes were also states that voted
for Romney, while states in which people gave the lowest
percentageof their adjusted gross income went for Obama. The top 17
states for rate of giving all went for Romney.

According to a
published report by The
Washington Post, Bernie donated $8,350 to charity from the sale of a
book whose contents were nothing more than a transcript of his nearly 9-hour
filibuster on corporate greed and the decline of the middle class and an
honorarium for an appearance on HBO’s Real
Time with Bill Maher. On his Vermont
tax return, the ‘ol geezer donated a mind-numbing $150 divided between four
causes: at-risk children, endangered
wildlife, military veterans and the environment.

U.S. Senators aren’t
required to disclose their exact net worth, so the closest anyone can
get to Bernie Sanders’ net worth is to dig through disclosure forms and do the
math.